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- Albert Einstein

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[Quick 10/11/10 update: I fixed the bug that kept NV from autosaving your writing when the notes list was collapsed. Also possibly fixed a scrollbar bug for users with small screens. My fork is still hooked up to Scrod’s autoupdate mechanism, so to get the fixed update to my NV for download it

After several years of not getting any of these cool Nigerian scam emails look what I had today on my inbox! I love these!

Hello Friend,

I am Dr Micheal F.Kahn the bank manager unit of the foreign remittance, department BANK OF AFRICA Burkina ,I got your email address recommended du Burkina FASO business consultant and i decided to contact you for beneficiary and a 100% free business transaction. I am trusting this deal to you by faith and hope that you will handle it without any betrayed .In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of US $9.5m (Nine million five hundred thousand US dollars) In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire in 20TH of July 2002 in a accident car in Burkina Faso The Late Mr Sahid Ali Rahman, A citizen of Nationality of Kuwait and residence in Burkina faso

I agree with you to take 25% of this money will be for you and respect to the provision of a foreign account , 5% will be for expenses incurred during the business , 70% will be for us and my colleagues.

I suggest to hear from you.

Your’s faithfully

Dr Micheal F kahn

Oh! Free money! This is SO cool!

The last time I received one of these I decided to really give the scammer a ride for its free money. I told Mr. Mbusuma from the Bank of United Afrikan Nations that I was interested in the money that I would gladly go ahead with the 100% risk-free business.

After 10 emails where I built his expectations I managed to get him to tell me the bank account and routing number of a bank where I would send him some extra money that I found laying around too. Needless to say he was exited! Oh… Social engineering is so sweet!

Of course after that I never contacted the guy anymore and I dropped the temporary email I set. I tracked the bank information to a bank not in Africa, but in Mexico! I gave that information together with a full analysis of the email server used by the scammer (located in San Diego, CA) to the FBI.

I don’t know what happened after that, but the whole month of work with that guy was so much fun!

Anyway, not about minimalism but I thought it was funny. I just hate those scammers.

“think that the biggest mistake people make is latching onto the first idea that comes to them and trying to do that. It really comes to a thing that my folks taught me about money. Don’t buy something unless you’ve wanted it three times. Similarly, don’t throw in a feature when you first think of it. Think if there’s a way to generalize it, think if it should be generalized. Sometimes you can generalize things too much. I think like the things in Scheme were generalized too much. There is a level of abstraction beyond which people don’t want to go. Take a good look at what you want to do, and try to come up with the long-term lazy way, not the short-term lazy way.”

- Larry Wall

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Patrick Rhone’s iPad Life | The Brooks Review:

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Wanna see how I’m using my iPad?

Of course you do…